Dr. Samir Parikh, Fortis Health shared that children’s mental health may be affected by the pressure of parents, academic performance, issues of relationships after a recent survey of Mental health of students – Highlighting the exams and peer pressure are some of the main factors for stress and anxiety among students – National Education Research and Training Council (NCERT) Instructions for schools to better protect students’ mental health. Talking about how the schools are considered a safe and safe environment for students who spend a third day and 220 days there, the instructions emphasize that it is the responsibility of the school to ensure security. Toan, security, health, health, and happiness of all children in schools and dormitories. They added that teachers must be trained in determining early signs of students on attachments, anxiety, refusing schools, communication issues, anxious models, depression. Feeling, conducting related issues, intellectual disabilities, and more.
Source: Mental health and health of the survey of school students, 2022
‘Family pressure and peer, low self -esteem are some issues that students face’
From worrying about their academic achievements to deal with family pressure and peer, these are some issues that children go to school to face and share mental health experts. Students, especially young people, face many stress factors from many fields. Change brain and body, change personality, change social motivation, benefits and additional learning needs, all have collective impact on their overall health. Some of the most common issues that students give include in ideological differences and challenges with parents, peer pressure, personality changes leading to increased aggression, self -esteem and self -esteem Confidence, sleep issues and appetite, anxiety and panic, difficulty in attention and concentration, sharing, Dr. Ruchi Sharma, Consulting Psychologist, HCMCT Manipal Hospital, Dwarka.
‘Cooperation with parents, sensitive to them is also very important’
Moly Suryawanshi, Hod Health, Ridge Valley School emphasized that mental health is an integral part of a child’s overall health. A child spends nearly a quarter of the school day with his educators and colleagues. The school is the second safe space that the child creates in the mind after returning home and the teachers are the second guard after their parents. Therefore, it is important that schools ensure a safe and healthy learning environment for each child. It may be difficult to know if a child’s trouble is only part of growing up or a matter of discussion with a mental health expert. But the most common issues that the surface is related to the anxiety of separation and excessive concern to use the Internet, leading to poor attention and poor self -regulation, which may be a lack of conditions. Loss of attention, hyperactivity, poor operating functions and affected communication skills. We work widely in identifying these initial signs and cooperating with the parents’ body, feeling them and creating an uniform environment of improving emotions for each child. From a one-on-one intervention to the sensitive sessions with the parent education to cognitive behavioral therapy, all support children together in bringing social emotional balance, she said.
Pandemic adds students: Parents
Getting used to online classes in the pandemic, and then having to return to the classroom now also added the level of students’ stress. Sushma Rajput, the parents of a 9th grade student, shared, how to function in the class has changed many times in the past two years. With the pressure of scholars, colleagues, and pandemics, it also adds to the anxiety of the students. The instructions of the NCERT also mention the necessity of the schools to set up a mental health council and mental health program based on school and provide pedagogical support to ensure health. The spirit of the student, while participating with parents.
‘Mental health needs to be prioritized’
